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Stephen King sits on his ass, bloggers wonder who’s doing his laundry

Literary bloggers are taking umbrage with Stephen King for a column he wrote in Sunday’s Washington Post called “The Writing Life.”

In the column, King describes the nature of — you guessed it — the writing life. His main argument is pithily captured in the following sentence: “Dig this: The so-called ‘writing life’ is basically sitting on your ass.”

Bookninja is suitably annoyed by this claim, and his response says as much: “Then how come I have to work so much and run around and do laundry and stuff?” he asks. “Ooooohhhhhh. I seeee. YOUR writing life is sitting on your ass, Steve-o. Mine is making ends meet.”

Another big part of the writing life, as King sees it, is training “the half-wild beast that lives in the thickets of each writer’s imagination” to come out every once in a while. Edward Champion, in his “Return of the Reluctant” blog, picks up on this detail. He simply excerpts a sentence or two from the column and titles his post, “scruffy little fleabags,” which is King’s a pet name for the muse.

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